Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, January 17, 1879, Page 4

THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: IFRIDAY, JANUARY 17, 1870~TWELVE PAGES. Thye Tribre, TERMS OF S8UBACRIPTION. &un of wen Ciuhaf ywenty. Fpeelmon coples rent free. tilve Post-Olice sddress in tall, fncluding Btate and County, fiemittances may be mada efther hy draft, express, Teal-Otfice orer,or In roglatered fetter, at out riak. TERMPFO CITY SUBSCRIRERS. Tally, delivered, Eunday excepted, 23 cents per week. Lally, delivercd, Sunday tnelnded, 50 cents per week. ddress THE TRIRUKE COMPANY, Uatner Madiron and Desrhorn-sts., Chileago, 11, Orders tor the delivery of T Trin! 3 Euglowood. and lyde Parx ieft In the counting-room »ilirecetve promot attentlon. iy CA1eAao TRIRUXX has established branch offices ferihe receipt of subscriptions snd sdvertisements as ‘b{\";’.':'x TORK-Room 20 Tribune Bulldiog. F.T.Mo: ADDRX, danager, “ L'alils, Erance—No. 16 Rue de 1a Grange-Datetlare, 3. MantxR, Agent, LONDON, Eng.—American Exchsnge, 449 Btrand. Baxny P, Unuio, Agéat. BAN FIIARCISCO, Cal.—Talace Hotel s AMUSEMENTS, + MeVicker's Thestre. Madieon street, belween Doarborn snd Btate, **Rose: Cale.” taverly’s Thentre. Deardborn street, corner of Monroe, Sier Majesty's Opers. **1l Trovatore.” Engagement of Hooley?s Thentre. Nancoiph street, between Clark and Tafslle. Ene «gagoment of John Dillon. Henedt of John Dillon. Academy of sosles Tialsted strect, between Madison and Monroe, Va- oty entertalnment. Hamil ‘Theatre, Clark street, opposite the Court-Houss, Variety ea- tortaloment. Metropolitan Theatre, Clark strect, opposits Sherman House. Varfety ea- tertalnment. ‘White Rtocking Fark. Lake shore, foot of Washiogton street, Dase-bal On fea at 2:30 o, m, i e ] ——— o= FRIDAY, JANUARY 17, 1879, _— The Wisconsin Benatorial cauous balloted “thirteon times Inst evoning without effecting anomination. On the last ballot the votes stood—for Keyes, 83; for Hows, 26; for CanrexnTESR, 25, Grorox V. Vzsr will be tho choice of the Democratio Legislature in Missouri as the successor of Gon., Snrrps in the United States Bonate for the full term of gix yoars commenoing March 4, 1879, Mru, Coss, the defendant in the Norwich anurdor trinl, waa Inst ovening found guilly of having poisoned her huaband * in the sccond degree,” which saves hor neck from tho gallows, but admits of an oxtonded derm of imprisonment. Both Housos of Congress have now passed 4he bill providing for the payment of ar- rearages in pensions dating back to the time of discharge from the army in thoe War of the Robellion, and it only requires the signa- turo of the President, which it will undoubt. edly receive, to beooms a law. Tho second meoting at Ottawn of tho farmers ond shippors in the intarcst of tho protection of the Illinois & Aichigan Canal against the hostilo schemes of the railroads was very largely attonded, snd tho interest mavifestod shows that tho matter has como to bo recognized aa of tho very first impor. tanco, Ticnanps, the Nebraska butcher, has now confessed to the killing of twolvo people at wvarious times. Bince his sentonce to bo langed April 20 *he has been unusually Jovial and talkative, and it is expocted that . before bo finally swings he will, out of pure good nature, reveal tho fate of a dozon or two more porsons whose mysterious disap. pearance hna never bofore been sccounted for. Prooron Kwnorr, of Kentucky, Davmo B, Curszuson, of 'Fexas, and E. G, Laruaw, of Now York, aro the mombers of tho House Ju- djciary Committes who have been appointed es a Sub-Comumittos to procecd to Ohicago and tako tesimony in the Dropaerr case, 3Mr. KnorT, as Chairman of the Judiolary Comwmittes, has charge of tho Geneva-Award ill, and, 23 ho will not be ablo to leave until this measure hns beon diaposed of in tha Iouse, the Sub-Committeo will hardly reach xeach Ohicago beforo next week. A suit has been commenced to recover damages on account of the Injury to health sud comfort sustained through the Dridge- port odors, and the progress of tho action at law will bo watched with interest by o stinks stricken community, 1f it shall avor be es- tablished that an assault upon the publio olfuctorles in the aggregate can be snccess- fuily made the basis of & sult for damnges, litigation will thrive, lawyers prosper, and tho etink-producers be driven to the om- ployment of adequate measures for doodoriz- ing thelr businoss, Yeatorday's developmenta in the Ruxo in- quiry woro of o character tending to dis- prove the charges against the officor under investigation. T'ho testimony of Liout, ‘Warraor bas s strong bouring this way, his opiuion as & soldier being that RtkNo could not havo dono otherwise than to ordera re. tront, and that to have stood his ground would have uselossly macrificed the lives of tho untire command. 1t will be noticed with eatisfaction that the Court of Inquiry bas sovoked its ruling relative to the taking of uotes, and 1o rustrictions will heroafter be placed upon the reporters. PEe——— ‘The bill which passod the Houso yesterday 44 to facihitato tho refunding of the national dobt " is designed to save a part of the inter- est which it is nocessary for the Government to pay under the presout law pending the mjturing of auycall for outstanding 6 per contd. Just how it will operate is not yot quite clear. ‘Y'he object in viow ls certaly commendable, for there is no justics in the practice of paying double interest for a torm of three montha as theonly moans of making the exchange, The bill will also bo of valus becauso it sdds the 5 per cents to the liut of bonds which way be included under the pro. vislons of the Refunding act, Advices regarding the French Cablnot crisia zeprosent the situation as extromely threatening. ‘The chief Lone of contention botwecn MicMazon and the Chambers is the ‘War Office, the Presideut iusisting upon the exclusive control of the urmy and all the ap- pointmonts thervin, to thv exclusion of the Legialative branch of the Cov- exament, which claiws’ the right to direct the admintstration of mililary affairs, MacManox threntens to tesign rather than give way, which would open ths way for tho formstion of a Government by the extrema Left, with a red-hot radical programme fraught with danger to the social and politi- cal tranquillity 6f the Republi ——— Two yoars ngo, nfter Joun A, Looax had declared ¢ that if he wers not elected Ben- ator no Republican should be "; after he had defeated Mizrox Hay, E. B. Wasnnuaxe, and Judgo Lawnkxce, and sfter his hench- mon had bolted the Repnblican caucns nom- ines, the Bt. Louis Glode-Democrat, m n leading editorinl,—Jan., 26, 1877,—thus char. noterized and dononnced him for hig perfidy: *¢What Je the retarn which Republicanism has received at the hands of Mr. Looan and hla Iriends? Simply & eell-oul, s berrayal to the ene- my, a revelation of Mr. Looan's abliity to rain whera he had failed to rule, 1f Judqe Davie has any sense of gratitade in his ponderous body, he will ascribe his election not to his own merits dot to'tho generons and devoted manner in which the Loaax adherents eacrificed thelr party on the altar of thelr candidate, Tbe proof of deliberate dishonealy an the part of the friends of Looax, and of theirdetermination to hetray the varty rather than allow sny other Repablican to be elacted, is clear cnough, They had the victory in theiz hands, anditdoes not matter whether thoy sacrificed it through dellberate malica or thelr stupidity, the resnlt and the blame munst fall on them equally. Looax has lustrated for the ninety-ninth time the depressing teath that Ia politics tho oaly rule with- out an exception s the rule of ingratitede, and that when a party has exhsusted its resources and weakened its strength in heaping. honors upon & *favorito son," and stands by him for the sake of tho interests he represents, tAs only reward it need exrpect s betrayal, surrender, and defeat! The humillating defeat the licpublicans have expos tlenced when thiey held the victory fa thoir hands ought not to be loat on them, Yet it will have been endured in vain If they fail to sscribe It toanything els than that rule-or-ruln policv which was a part 0f the Loaax programme, and whicA no man ought tna fres counliry lo be allowed to carry out more than onze," I8 IT BAFE TO LOGAN 7 A veteran Ropublican writes to tho Bloom- ington Pantagraph concerning Yoo and Oavrzany, and makes the following pertinent suggestiona; **1donot wish to be understood s wantonly, muach less unjustly, asealling Gen. Loaans far from it Ile hias rendered the country in the fleld and on the stump valuable service, For this, too, Iam giad to know, the peopla aaditheir tepresent- atlves have repeatedly honorod him. But, let me 8ak, i 1t not apparent that, In the make-up of the two men, thero s a wide and radical cifference; that, whilst fAe one acle Aabit- ually from conticlions of dufy, the other la prompted—I will not not say wholly, but largely, vory largely—by policy? In view of his history, As known to every Intelligent voter of ¢he State, can any one doubt it? Is It not troe, that shilst for years tho one was battling, in a feeble minonty, the other waos as strongly Identified with the Pro- Blavery Democracy, and that he changed his party relations only when suceess conld no longer ba achloved in that direction? Buch being the well- known fact, what suficient guaranteo has the Ro- publican party that, shonld 1t cease to be the dom!- nant party within the noxt six years, —an event by no means {mprobadle, —he woald not be found ar- rayed agatnst {t? Shall we cast off s nniformly trae and devoted friend for one whose past hiatory thus cleary Indicates that he worships~I will not say only, tut quita too largely—success? XNo, no. Let ua rathor stick to honest Old Dicx. Though he may not be quite so ' aggressive’ a politiclan, he filla well the JerransoN.standard, by belng both + capable and honest.'* Benator Qorrspy was never a membor of thoe Pro-Slavery Demooratio party. From his enrlicat manhood he was an Anti-Slavery Whig, and has beon n Republican from the organization of that party in 1854, Mr, Loaax, on the contrary, was, ns ho hea ropoatedly boasted, * born a Domocrat,” and baa assorted ropeatedly that ho would never bo anything clss, and is on record #a declar- ing that he would never affiliate with the Ropublicans while thore was breath in his body, Mo continned a Democrat for soma timo after the War for the Union had begun, The Domocratio party at that perlod was hopolessly wrecked, and he then changed hia party rolations, ** when success could no ITonger ba achioved in the Domocratio dirco. tion.” Lmntan TrumsuLy ante-dated Looax by elght years in doserting from tho Demoo. racy to the Republicans. Jonx M. Piruzn was another conspicuous reornit from the Democratic party many yoars before Loaax, Pataen ond Tauxnons, believing sucocss in tho Ilopublican raoks bad beon ex- hausted for them, returned to the Domo- eratio party, and both did so whila holding office,—one a Benator and tho other QGovernor of Illinois,—to which thoy had boon olected by the Republican party. Yot the record of TaumnurL and of Parmen as Democrats, especlally ns Pro-Slavery men, waa mild, innocent, and harmloss ns com.- pared with that of Loaax, A goneration of peoplo have grown up to whom Looan’s rocord as 8 Democrat ia little known, and wo have therefors roproduced a fow pnges which may prove interesting ronding, espocially at this time, when he de- mands, that & Republican Legialatare shall sacritics Benator Ourzsny to make room for bim, In the Constitntion of 1848 it was pro. vidod *That the Goneral Asscmbly shall, at tho first sosvlon under the amended Constitu. tion, pass such laws as will effectually pro- hibit free persons of color from immigrating to and settling 1n this Btate, and to effsct. ually prevent the owners of slavea from bringing them into this Btate for the pur. pose of selting them froo.” No Leglislature of Illinois—though Democratic—enactod any such brutal laws until ot the January sossion of 1853, when Joux A. Looax took his seat and iutroduced into that body the infamous codo forever known a8 the ** Black Laws of Dlinols.” 'This code was founded on the sssumption that every man of color was o elave; it outhorlzed the ar- rest of every colored man, woman, and child, and their imprisonment in jail; if noowuer appeared wilkin a cortain time to claii them es slaves, due notice having besn given by advertisoment describing the negro, then the negro was to be advertised for sale by the 8heriff, and delivered to the pur- chaser. Under this shameful law it s not oxtravagant to uay that many hundreds of freo men, women, and children wore arrested ond sold into servitude, not including those who wore delivered to persons from other Btates claiming them s slaves. ‘'Ihe code was in all other respects brutal, barbarons, infamous, and hcrrible, It was made a heavy crime for any white person to give a negro food, or clothing, or shelter, and, under Looan's Black Law, Gov, T'aracen, then a lawyer (beforo the War) at Carlinville, ‘who had harbored & negro in his collar and Lad given him food and some clean clothes, was iudicted aud tried. ‘Though the facts waorg notorious as to the Governor porson- ally waiting on his fugilive guest for ten days, thore was & defect in tho pleadings, or shortage fn the proof, or something, and Parues escaped the Popitoutiary under Looaw's Black Laws for feoding and sheltering the fugiilve col- ored mun secking freedom. Gov. Parurs the other day related another narrow escapo bo had from Looax's Black Act from a year's smprisonment aud $500 flue the second year of tha War, for bringing home with biwma alave man who bad rendered valusble service to tho Union eausa nnd army in the South, Patatan says that he would rather have suf- fered the fncarceration and thie @ino than beon the author of that infamous law. For years after getting his bill passed Loaan fairly roveled in the glory of being the anthor of the Iilinois Black Laws ; he mado it his capital in trade to carry him into Cone. gress, After his memorable two days’ harangue denougeing and arraigning the galiant Col, Bussei for perjury, and charging the dying man with moral cowardice and guilty fear in taking tho onth of office, and charging the *“ miserable Black Republicans ” of Iliinois as accomplices in Bissxtr's alleged crime, he was clacted by the Pro-Slavery party in 1858 to Congross. Ho took his seat on December, 1850, The Houss was unable for several wecks to elect & Bpeaker, and the time was maialy spent iu debste, - The **South " de- manded the Speaker, nnd of course Loaaw sprand himself early and offen -in eulogy of the *Soath" snd fu dennuciation of the * Black Repnblicans.” We invite the atten. tlon of the Republicans of Illinols to & fow oxtracts from these speechen, On the Oth of Decnmber, 1859, during the debate on the election of Speaker, Loaax supported Bocock, of Virginin, and he en- tered Into a general statemont of his own political viewa. In nnswer to varions ques- tions put to him by Mr. Kmvaone, of Indiana, he mado these remarkable deliverances : “¢The gentleman from Ilifnola (himself) also holds toat it 1 the daty of every good cltizen to assist in carrying ont that (Fugitive Hlavo) law, as one of the Iaws of our common country, and that the man who rofuses todo so1s not a pateiot, Is not just to his own people, to the country at large, or to the Constitntion. *'The gentleman from Iliinols holds, forther, that yon Hepnbllcaus are not oniy opposed o the Fugitive-Slare law, but opposed tu iis execution; that you Seed the fugiiires who come to your houses and send thewn off; that you will not arrest them, and will not assist in srresting them, WY ATFLES WILL XOT UNOW IN NORTHERN ILL- Xo18. *‘Ican tell the gentioman, farther, that the Fugitive-Slave law s denounced almont as treason in my own State. These acta have been deprecated by the Democratic party In lilinols, They have been denonnced in the northern part of that besu- tital State, which {s now dligafed by the contami- nating touch of Abolitionlam, so that i almoaf re- JSuses {o produce fruits. 1 do not think it doos yl61d the fralts of the earth ro bonntifully as it did before, on account of the Abolitlon hordes thatin- Jeat that pars of the Btate, ASHANED OF JLLINOIS. '*Every fugitive that has been arrested in Ii- nols, or in any of the Western States, - and I call Tlinola & Weatern State, for £ am aehamed longer to call it a Northern Stute,~bas beon made by Democrats. In Ilinols tue Dewocrata have all that work todo, Youcall it THE DIRTY WORK of the Democratic party to catch fugitive staves for the Southern people. W= are irilling to perform that dirty work. I do not coneider It disgraceful to perform any work, DIRTY O XOT DIATY, which fa in accordance with the laws of the land and the Constltution of the country. *'1 am now abouk 28 years of age [he was born in 1824, and was then 33 yearsold). [was BODN A DEXOCTAT, and all my lifo have learned to bellave that the Democratic party In National Conventlon never doca wrong, WILL NEVER APPILIATE WITH BLACK REPUDLICANS, ¢+ All L have 10 say in roply is, that I came hern 88 o Democrat, and I expect to support 8 Demo- crat, 1 may heve differed with gentiomen upon this (Southern) elde of the Tlouse in refercnce to fasucs that Ao passed; but Gop kxows that T have differed from the other (Republican) side from my chlldhood, and with that (Itepublican) side I will necer afiliate s0 long as I have breath in my body, INDORS! IDNAPPING, **1understand that two negrocs wero arreated uesr the Town of Jonesboro, forty miles distant from whote I reside; and, In order to provent thelr tescue In the sams manner by the Hepublicans, they were detsined until thoir mastors wore notificd snd came for them. [indorse that act! XEQRO EQUALITT, *'Iask tho gentleman (Fanxswonrn), Is there sny distinction In his (then Chlcago) district bo- tween negroes and white people in the schools ? Do not white and colored childron go o the same achool 1 Fanxswonmi—*'I do not know of any colored children golng to school. Thero are none in the town where I reside. If there wera any, thoy ougat to go to school,” QUILTY CHICAGO, Loaax—*'Do you not kuow that, in the City of Chicago, cojored and white clilidron go to sctiool togethor 2" Wo might fill Tar Temuxe with extracts of the same geuneral character, not to show that Loaan was a Democrat, but to show the kind of Democrat he was. His doughfacism was 50 pronounced that the slavebolders held bim in contompt. His love and devotion to Slavery was 60 overzealous aud unneccssary that it was disgusting. Mo continued in this courso as a chawplon of Slavery until, as the writor in the Bloominglon paper suggests, “guccess in thnt line had ceased™; the Demooratlo party had been broken, and the ‘Bouth * had no further use for such men as Bureen and Lodaw, who found the doors olosed to them, and hastened to **affiliste with the other sile,” though the broath was still in their bodics. DurLes has ulready got back to his old political amsociations, Paraen aud Taousuny, bave done the same, and, while no one objccts, s it not batter that these men go back ompty-hnnded rather than as Bonators elooted Ly the Ropublican party ? MR, CONKLING AND THE PRESIDENT, It tho ucautborized nccounts of the late meeting of the Senats Committae on Com- merce ara entitled to credit, then Mr, Congrang las not yet washed off his war palut nor laid aside the tomahawk, as was prowised, but is still detorminod to fight the Prosident over the disposal of the Now York potrovage, ‘Ihe Honate, at the Instance of Mr. Congrmxag, rocently made a call on the President for the reasons which prompted bim to remove Collector Auriur snd Sur- veyor ConNett, The Yresldent is sald lo have mads & roply setting forth that these officials falled to complywith the Inatruc. tions of the Treasury Departmiont relative to a reduction of employes; that a large number ‘of men wora Lkept on the pay-roll in sioecurs positions as a reward for political mervices; that they falled to take the proper action in rogard to the extonsivo amuggling of silk goods and the systematio uudervaluation of kid gloves; that the Jay Commisson, As- sistant-Beoretary Farencu, and Assistant-So- licitor Ropmssox mado investigations and reports showing that theso offioes were uot properly administered. The merila of the case havo been publicly discussed enough to secure a general recognition of theso causes, But it is said that, when the communication Lad been read, Benator CoNxiivo denounced the charges a4 pretonses and afterthoughts, mado up by the Administration for the pur- poss of hiding tho real motives that prompted the removal of Mr, Coxxrixa’s friends, which he charged to be personal, political, aud ma- liclons. 3 It Mr, Cowxrixo intends to fusisi on this position, he will find no sympathy outside the partioular clique which he oontrols in New York an@ the disgruntled politicians olses where who Lave not sucoceded in running tho present Administration. It was under. stcod, previously to the holding of the last Republican Couvention In Now York, that there was to Lo o general rocoucilivtion be. twecn the fricuds and foes of tho Administra. tion in the Republicsu party w order to s nswuro the earrylng of the Btate. Tho Ad- ministration Republicans of New York noted in‘ontiro good faith ; they put no obstacles in the way of Bonator Coxxriva's efforts to uecure a re-clestion ; they joined henttily in the campaign with the understanding that Coxxtana should bo the man, and the Re- publiean success was due to - this friendly oliiance. This goneral fact is s rufliclent deninl of the charge that the Prosident was nctuated by personal or spiteful moatives townrds Conzrixa in msking changes in the New York Custom.House, If now, in spite of the good faith shown by the friends of the Administration, Mr, Coxxu1xg, in the confidancs that his re.clec- tion in sure, shall procced o harass and em- barrass the Administration, he will be guity of a very malicions and treacherons piece of business, Alr. CoxkLixg's previous fmplica- tion in certain transactions and combinations designed to fasten diegraco upon tha Admin- istration will serve to explain the motives that actnate any new attack, anda reopening of the braach will pnt upon Cowxrixo and his friends the responsibility for auy damage that may come upon the Republican party Uy ronson theroof. Tho country is not par- ticularly intereated 1 Mr, Coxxriva's desiro {o control the patronage of New York for his own personal benefit, and it will not sympathize with him in any offort to that ond which may bring dissension into the Republican party, nnd produce the same condition of things fu Now York that oxisted during iho Iast Presidential campaign,— nnless Mr, Coxgrina’s **claims " be recog- nized. 'The New York Senator will fiud that this {3 not tho surest way to influenco the next Republican Convention in nis favor. TWO IMPORTANT RESUMPTION MEASURES. Tho Honso haa passed two bills which are expocted to ald materially in maintaining re- sumption and otherwise contribute to an improved financial condition of the Govern- ment. Ona of theso was the bill to popular- izo the refunding bonds, suggested by Seoro- tary Snenyax, and the other to authorize the Becrotary of the Treasury to recoive green- backs for duties,~n measure that was, singu. Inrly enongly, defeated by tho Greenbackors, under the lead of Ewino, in the cloging hours of the Jast session. Tho Lill designed to popularize the 4 por cent bonds was suggested by Secrotary Ener- anaN primarily with the view of aiding in the more rapid conversion of the national debt into bonds bearing only 4 per cont interest, bnt it {s nlso calenlated to sorve, to a certain extent, tho purpose of a Government savinga syatem. It authorizes the Becrotary of tho Trensury to issue certificales of doposit in denominations of 810, bearing interest at 3 per cont, in exchange for lawful money, which certificates shall bo convertible in suma of &0, with accrued interest thoreon, into United States bonds bearing 4 por cont interest; and it is provided that the monoy so received shall bo applied only to tho payment of 4 per cont bonds. As represented Ly Gen. Ganrrierp, the purpose of this Lill is to place the Gov- ernment dobt largely among the agrionltural, moobanical, and laboring classes of the oountry, ofter the maoner in which the French debt is distributed among 5,000,000 Frenchimen, and the hopo is that such dis. tribution will abolish tho clasa distinction of “blonted bondholders,” will deprive dema- goguos of n favorite expedient for decolving the working clossos, and will identify the bono and sinew of the country with the best intercats of tho nation in closo financial roln. tions, It supplies to a degree the want that crontod a domand for postal savings-banks, viz.: tho facility fora doposit of surplus earnings with QGovornment seccurily, The Iatter purpose is not sorved 8o complotely ns it would be by any one of the bills intro. dnced at tho last session for taking deposits at the various money-order post-offices, but tho present bill enables every person with n surplus accumulation of $10 to scek the safe-keeplng of the Government, with a small intorcst, instead of trust. ing to the old systom of privato savings.banks, in which the puoplo of this country have very generally lost all confidence, Tho causo of resumption Is served by thus securing a larger, more rapld, and less costly conversion of the national debt into 4 per cent bonds, which naturlly improves the Gov: ont credit and in. crenses popular confidenco in the ability to maintain resumption. Amendments of various kinds were sug- gested, but the bill passed in tho shape we have stated. Mr. Kerier wanted to tack on his inevitablo Interconvertible schemo by pro- viding that &10 certificates should be con. vertible into lawful money, with sccrued in. torest, as woll as into 4 per cont bonds, Burres, who never misses an opportunity to pandor to the inflationists and Communiats, opposed and denounced tho bill on the ground that it would producs a ocontraction of the currency. The absurdity of this ob. jootion was exposed, howover, by Mr, Hrew. 1rT, who opposed the measure becanse it was likely to rosult fn inflation. Tho fact iu that it will neither contract nor inflate tho currenoy to any appreclablo extent, Mr. Bumomanp sought to bayo tha scope of the measuro enlarged 80 as to pro. vide for taking doposits in lower smounts aud to approach tho savings-bank wystem which he had already proposed under a diffurent bill; but this amendmont was re. jocted, partly, perhaps, in order not to court any further opposition from the ropresenta- tives of the private savings-banks, andpartly bevause the schume, {n its present shape, dispenses with the vast machinery and large expense that a regular postal saviogs-system would involve, As it was, the bulk of the opposition to the bill cams from the lobby and representatives of the Now Englaud savings-banks, which have forescen a scrioua interference with their business in uny law opening Goverument seourities to the poorer classes, It {s to be hoped, howaver, that thia element will not be any moro sucoesaful in the Senata than it proved to be in the the Iouse. Tho bill, as it stands, may well be accepted oy & compromise be. tweeu those who are in favor of a postal savinge-system aund those who are opposed to everylhing of the kind; the law itselt will add to the Qov- ernment fucilitles for rofunding the publie dobt, and at the same time furnlsh protec. tion to the poorer peoplo who want to avail thewselves of it aguinst the swindles of pri- vato savings institutions. ‘The passage of the bill suthorizing the Becretary of the Treasury to receive green. backs for dutics is pretty well assured in the Benate, sinco that body passed a similar bil] at the last session, which wes dofeated by thoe Grounbackers of the House out of spite, ‘The law will not produce any change in the presont order of things, since the Beoretary of the Treosury has sotually taken green. backy iu payment of duties ever since the firt duy of resumption. Ttis still a watter of conulderable doubt, howerer, whether tha Becretary of the Trcasury has the right to take this coursé under the Iaw as it now stands, and this new bill will set mch donbt at rest, Bomo of the moro cautions mem. bers, like My, Ganrrzp, desired the anthor- ity to roceive greenbacks for dutios, limited toauch ¢ime ns the greenbacks and gold shall be at par; but, of course, the Greeno backers would not consoht to this. Indeed, any such limitation would seem to imply an apprehension that the Government may agnin be forced to suspend specie.paymonts, and there wonld bo n constant danger that gold might at any time nequire a speolal value for the payment of daties, The bill is botter aa it stands, 8o far na it is designed to nid in the maintenance of resumption ; and, it the Governimant shall ever again suspond, it must provide coin in some other way for the payment of interest on the public dobt. ——— THE ILLINOIS CANAL AND RIVER. The State of Illinois looks with muoh con. fidence to her Roprosentatives in Congress for some natural aid in completing the Cannl ond River improvement. 'The State hna paid something like ©8,000,000 for the present caual, and within a faw years hins built two locks and dams on tho Illinois River, at an oxpense to tho Btato of over $1,000,000. ‘The work is not, therefore, a now one, or an experimental one, nor one of whose practica- bility and utility thero oan bo sny donbt. TheBtate has done all this for the country,— for the ganeral welfare for opening n grand highway between tho Mississippl Valley and the Great Lakes,—n national highway free to the whole Amorican people; nnd all that is askod Is soms aid, say at thia session £400,- 000,—enough to finish the third dam nod lock on the river. 'The requost is neither oxtrav. agautsnor unrensonablo. Two yenrs ngo, Congress appropriated nearly £10,000,000 for so-called rivor and harbor improvements, not onv cent of which waa for this great work,— the nddition of another grand tributary to tho Mississippi River, The Illinois River has a fall of not exceed- ingone inch to tho mile, and porhaps is bat. tor adapted to -slack-water navigation than any stream of its length in this orany other conntry, It needs but six dams aud locks to make it navigable for steamboats from its mouth lo the Kankakes River, nbont sixty- five 1niles from Lake Miclugan, Two of these locks and dams have been comploted, and tho third is nnder wny. Tho canal con- necting the river and lake has boen in opera- tion for yonrs, but it is too smiall for the bnsiness it will bo required to perform. This canal only needs doopening and widening, and, except a small portion of slone oxcavr. tion, for the rest of the dlatance tho work can bo done rapidly nnd comparatively ifiox- pensively. When completed, it will bo the grandest work of the kind in the world, The State of Illinois Lay, a3 wo have said, Luilt tho prosent canal nnd paid for it, and has done nearly one-half the work on the river improvemont. The Stato hina set apart cortain revenues to be applied to the contin. untion and completion of the river improve. mont, butas the work is to be n national ono and froe to the wholo country, the State nsks, through horRepresontatives, somo shars of the many millions annnally approprinted for the improvemont of internal navigation, An appropriation ot this session of enough to build one of these locks and dams will, with the Stato fund applicable to that pur. pose, result in placlng two additional com- pleted locks on the river, Wo 1nvite tho altention of the nineteen gentlomen who ropresent tho State of INli- nois in tho Iouse of Raprosentatives to ‘what has beon done for the Stata of Wiscon- sin in the matter of the Fox River and Wis- consin improvement. Beveral millions of dol- lars have boen oxponded on that work. Tho Inst appropriation was ono of $260,000, It in notorlous that whatover may ba practica- ble in the way of adapting Fox River for navigation, that of making the Wisconsin River, n rapid stream of heavy foll, and travorsing 8 bed of sand, s utterly impossi- blo, unlesa It bs converted into an actual canal, Whilo those largo approprintions havo boen secured year afler year for that work, na} one dollar has been given by Con. gress to ald this State in the completion of the grand work which is so eminently prac- ticabls and which neceds so littlo to finfsh it. The deepening and widen. ing of tho conal will, when tho river improvement s finished, givo to the Btates on the Ohlo and Missousi Rivers, and to the Btates on the Lower Misalssippl, direct and complete stenmbont navigntion to the whole system of Northorn Lakes. Thero will not be n Btate betwoen the Alleghanies and the Rocky Mountains to which this grand froc-wator highway from the Bouth to the North and Enst nnd from tho North and East to the wholo Misslssippl Valley will not ba of direct bonefit. The Iepresentatives of all these Btstes sbould give their earnest and liberal sapport to this appropriation, and wo Liave no donbt will do soif the ninetoen Rop- resontatives from this State shall unitedly ask and urgently press for it. The River and Harbor bill for this scssion will probably ap- propriate four or five milliona of dollars, Why should thia State and this great work be forever overlooked and denied ? e THE SLUGGISHNESS OF CAPITAL The Loundon Spectutor rather dolefully con- oedes that there fs a formidable obstacle to the revival of prosperity in England in the diffioulty of unlocking unromunerative cap- ifal and transforring it to paying invest- ments, It fiuds that the law of supply and dumand does not regulato the flow of money, end that it does not go where it is wanted with the promptness uccessnry to case the stringency occasioned by its accumnlation at cortain points, In sceking for the canses of this clog on tho movemant of capital, the Spectator advances soveral thoories which have more or lesa to do with it, but fails to thoroughly cousider the most obvious one, snd ono which it is very difficult to over- come, There ia great force in its assertion that men do not like to sacrifico ** s fixed plant,” and that they are always re- luctant to believe a profitable busi- uness Las ended, and sl more to begiu learning a new ons, There is no doubt of this. It is just as difioult fora long-establisied mercantile Louse, sccus- tomed for years to run in certain groovea and thoroughly famillarized with its busi- ness, to change the investment of its capital to another busivess, although it may be s paying one and jts own conductad at a loss, as it is for an fodividual who has spent the larger part of his life in ono pursuit to sud. denly take up another. As the Spectalor says: “1i takes years, not weeks, to con- vinos mon that capital can no longer be profitably used in a business they have learned, aud that they must give up the hope of bejng oace more blossed with pros- perity. Thoy cannot bear to feel usclous, and will grisp at the most shadowy chanoce,” The greatest: obstacls, however, to be ovorcome is the dificalty in finding sgents to pluce the capital, There are numerons opportunitics for uvestmmont whore the rates would ba vastly more remunerative than thoy are from existing investmonts, namelys for agricultnral opoerations, whore the se- curity is the best in the world,~the prod- nice itsolf. Bays the Spectator: * Canadian farmers, Tllinois farmers, Floridan orango. gardeners, Spanish-Amerioan maize-pro. dnoers, Bongalee irrigators of rice, aro all ready, and desirous to pny from 10 to 18 per cent for monoy which instautly ylelds them KO—we will sny 50, but ths roturn {8 much Inrger; yot the sleepy classes 10 England, who will buy Honduras Londs ou the most shadowy chance of got- ting 10 por cont, cannot, for want of the requisite ngoncy, get their money there,” 8o far as lilinofs farmers ara conoerned, the rates aro statod too high. In times of infla. tion, whon everything i8 booming and every ono fa rockless, farmoers might be fonnd who wounld pay 16 per cent for money, but not when they nre investing theirsnrplus in 4 per ceat bonds, Blill a hand. some intérest might be obtained with the very best sceurity in the world, nggrognting twico whnt capital brings nt home, but the ngonts are not nthandto placeit, There are tens of thousands of young men in Englavd who would like nothing better than to travel through thd United States, South Amarios, and olber great agricultural localities and placa the funds of the English capltalists in farm mortgages, provided they conid be trusted. 'Tho owner of eapital knows this ivell onongh, If hé could fuvest through a bank or a great railway or mining company ha would Liave courage enongh to go abond; but whan the juvestment involves tho service of individnal ngents, he is timordus, and nnmorous contingenoles arise to deter him. Te fenra that tho agent may moko n bad in- vestment, porhaps with inadeqnate scenrity; that ho oy fafl to make his colleotions; that he may et up all tho profits in personal exponses; or even that he may stenl the capitnl outrighi; and it re- moins, ihereforo, uninvested ‘or placed in bad investments at home, Thera in, first, the lack of faith in the ability of the sgent to make o judicious and,profitable invest. ment; aud second, o lock of faith in his honesty wlhen onca out of sightand under tho junisdiction of o foreign country, We have had somo experience of this sort in our own country, When gold wna discovered .in California, nnd the most glowing visions of woalth loomed np bLeforo the peopls, thou. snuds of mon wora sont to the gold regions on ‘contracts, Farmers mortgaged their forms and provided them with ontfits, tools, and o year's support in consideration of o certoln division of profits, Bome were suc- cenaful and somo were not, 'The unanccess- fal could not divide and the euccesstn! fn snont cnses would not, either charging tho percentages up to exponaes or failing point.”| blavk to make sny roturn at all. It showad, nsarule, that mon nre mot to be trusted under such circumstancos. It does not take moro than ono txperiment of this kind to in. duce a lack of confldonce in the employment of men without sceurity to do the businesa of other men out of the jurisdiotion of the country whero the capital {a owned. | ‘Whother thero is any remedy for this bor densomo character of eapital s extremaly doubtful.~The Spectator thinks that tho time may como when there will b ¢ system of insuranco, grent gnorantoo socioties guarnu- | teotvg for fractional rates, not the success of n transfer of copital, but the safoty of the capital invested,—a quito possible branoh of insurance, now ontirely neglected, which wounld give sharcholders a now resonrce, uamely nuditors whose direct and imperative interost wasa thorough, yet seoret, audit,” Eninently desirable as such an=insurance company might be, the prospeots for fta or_ ganization are not very flattering. It Is much more likuly that capital will keop on moving iu its oldconservative way, transforring ft- aclt and flowing into new channels, under compulslon rather than by attraction, The attitude of the Cablact on the Chinese question Is made public by a Washinzton letter, The President nnd Sccrotary Evants aro the most pronounced agaiugt the ¥ invasion," ns Mr. Evanrs calls ft. Noltber the Prestdent nor eny member of the Cablact attempts to con- ceal thelr views as to the matter. Itts talked of quite frecly amoug thidmsclves and thelr friends, and there is uo dlsposition ta throw the charm of secrecy around the matter or withhold oplalons. Becrctaries McCrany and Trosmp- 80N are less decided than tho Lresldent and tho Becrctury of Buate, but aro cmpbatie In thelr oofnfons that 1t should be stopped. Mr, Devens does not bellave auy active stopa should bo taken (o pro- tect ourselves from Chineso immigration any more than from -Uormon, Insh, Engitsh, or African iminigration, for that matter. leo thivks we caunot safely discrininate agalnat auy class of peoplo, no matter what thelr color, or for what thcy are willing to labor. Judge K=y holds pretty much the sawe view, Becro- tary SuBSNMAN hos about the sume views aa Tuouraon and McCrany. ‘Tho tone of the Aduinistration is, thereforo, antl-Chinese, snd stops will bo bnmedlately taken to change the prosent treaty stipulations, so as to pat & par- tial, It not a tatal, stop to the Chiness invasion of the 8lops. It would have buen done bofore, but the Administration has been awaltiog the srrival of the Chinese Embassy, expecting that they would give ofllcial expression to their view on the subject; but as yet the Ministers of China have refralned from tnentioning the mat- ter, sven jucldentally, s . 'The LoaiN blow d strikers say they want an ‘“‘aggvessive man for Scoater.” Do thoy know what the word * aggressive "’ moansi 1t means the first attack, or act of hostility; the first act of infury, or tlrst act leading toa war or cootroversy. It 18 muchthe same asen- croaciment, injury, offense, It is to bezin & quarrel without regard to provocation. The dea of those creatures scems to bo that Illinols wants & Donuybrook-Fair sortof an Irlshndo, who will go marchilog uround thy Benate Chame ber brandishing ashillalah over his head and draggiog his coat onmthe floor, darfug some Boutberncr to trzad on itstolls. Ls thus really thokind ot statcsman the people of Illinols desire to bave in the Senato Chamber! But tf LoaaX was elected, would he play the part of the Donuybrook-Falr Irlshmant?! It must not bo forgotten that he was fn the Benate for six years, How did he bchave! Was he #gy. wresslve™ thenl Wbo dld be scare or whipl What first sttacke did be make, snd what furensic victorlea did he win i that Chambor! Wbhero are the scalps this *Big Injun' took? Isit notafact that beyoud an ovcasional ungrammatical, fustian harangue, e exhibited no powers of “ageres- slon”! There way not one Bouthern member of tho Benate that cared the fip of & Jamb's tall for snythiug he could say. Thoy liad taken hls wmental messure snd dlecovered thers was nothing to be alarmed at. Supporting Looaw on the scorc of aggresslvenvas is a fraud on the people of Ilitnols. ——— ‘The commission of experts to investizate the causs and cure of yellow fever have now a per- plexiog case on thelr hands. J¢ laa case In which all accepted etiological and semelological principles fn yellow-fever science seom to have Loen utterly set at deBsnce. After an absence of seven months from New Orleans, a litile dauglter of 8, E. Cangr left Chicago Dec. 18, wheo tho thermoweter was Lwo degrees below zero, and arrived st her bowe in the former city ou the 21st. The house, accordiog ¢o the ¥'imcs, “bad been thoroughly cleancd {n tho spring, freshly calelmined sud frescocd, and morcover ik had not had a case of yellow fever in ft during tha summer. On tho 20th, Dr. Josrru Sc was summoned. e found tho child eufferin, from sovero shpra-orbital, temporal, and epl. gasteic - palns, surface of body cool ang slightly perspiring, pulso 120, temper. atare (between teeth and check) 104 EXY Temperaturs of the room, forty-one e grees,” ilo visited her five tlmes durmg the next twenty-four hours, pursulng the sual treatment. Shortly after the tnst of thes iy he was hastlly resummoned, and found that the black vomit had supervaned. Dr.Joszen Jn_u; cxamined the discparge ana pronounced It 1o by from trne yellow fever, Tho case prosentey symptoms of yellow fover so strongly markedq that tho case was regardod as typleal. The thee ory that yellow fever poison fs destroged by g temperature of 83 Fahrenlielt fs strongly cop. troverted {n the fact that the house ind beey exposed to even greater cold. 'The yiew tha; a temperature of at Teast 60 1s required for its . velogment finds contradiction fn that the tem. perature of the roum whera tho child sickeneg was only 41, There was no fever In the honsg during tho snmmer, nor had the child been oyt sido the house. 1tls possible that the theory about the gerins of the discase being aurely de. stroyed by a certaln degree of cold {s not ahso. lutely correct, and needs modifieation at thy bands of medical and sclent!flc experts, e r— One of Jonx's Bureau organs zives this gy . reason for supplasting OGLXSBY with Log, * White on the other hand, Loaax fs nggresy willing to give aswell ns to reccive hanl knuc)u: one who docs not always await the attack, byt who will attempt the ndvantage by etting thy first bLlow.” This sort of gabblo mizht hayg found bellevers had LooaN not already scrved ¢ slx-year term In tho Scnate. No tnstance of iy “nugressivencss ' inthe Benato can be recalle] except when he made repeated assaults upoy Mr. Brarax and Prof. LiSpLey Muitnar, and putnmeled * them almost out of shape or recog- nltlon when he * azereasively " grabbed 5,00 of public money that did not rightfutly beloog to him snd make off with ft. 1n no debate iy the Senato durlug thoso six years did Looyy uive snvthing kuocks except the Treasury and tho vernacular. He got Iu no *“first biows» nor second blows on any opponent on great pab. lie questions. 1le was a mateh for noSenatorof information or ability on any topte of publie con. cern, and o all bis alx ycors’ service hg uever made % statesmnanilke specch in idea or Iancuage. He made no speech on any subject lds * friends™ or henchmien can refer to ap vrovingly or hold up as & model of ** aggress: ivencas,” scholarship, or statesmauship, ang none of the specchion ha did make were delir. cred in the English lunguage—according to the grammaticnl rules of that tongue. e t—— Tho bitter Benntorisl fizht fn Wisconsin 1y oceaslonalty enlivened by some bumorous as. pects. For example, ex-Speaker Bamurt, Fi- LD, cditor of the Ashland Free Iress, §s “s0lld” for E. W, KEYEs, and s now at Madl. son hard at work to sccure the election of that @entleman, In his absence, however, hils sub- editor Lakes & pull ot the Senatorinl question, and says that *'Tist O'Ifows fs tho man wio should be elected to the United States Senate le thon nafvely adds: “If the editor wers here, he would squeleh this paragraph.’t Sesrves 1y less Iudicrous ts another Incldent conuected with tho samoe paper. It is printed on what are koown s **patent insides,” and, while the local page {s loud In the pralse of the editor's favorite candidate, thy patent or *boughten™ portion of it glves the safd candldate » par- tleular fite,” ———— Braixn's speechi on the Chlnese question pleasea the Californians who think *‘Joux™ ought to **wo,” butat the same tine the ad- dress s looked upon ad e kort of bid lor the Prestdency. As it Mr, BLaxe could think ol such o thlng! A Suu Franclsco paper suve o “has disvovered, In advauco of othier Presi dential aspirants, that no party wikh oppuses thia abrogatlon or modification of the treaty can possibly carry this Btats next feptember, amt thurafore not at the eleetivn to be held in No- vember, 1580." ——— A Washington dispatch to tho gt Paul Lioneer-£'ress vt Wodnesday sags: ¢ Ex-Uov 11BxDiicKs, of lodiuna, was on the floor of the Benate to-lay, sud recelved quite un ovatlow Drang greeted bin warmly, und they were for some thue ln earnest couversation, Bey I, coming up and taklug a hand, At one timo Davis, ot Iiinols, Tuenssn, CONRLING, und McDoxanp wero on s lounga with im, causing tha remark to be made that ¢ Four Presldeutlal caudidutcs were sitting in g row.! 2 R e, A LooAn's ** Litorary Burcau says that Loasy and his friends will stund by the caucus, no mat- ter who may be nominated. They suld preclsvly tho samo thing two ycara ugo; but they boited tha concus nfter it waa found that Logax could not be otected. They did not hesltate to knlfe Judgs LAWHENCE, tho caucus nominee, “IH 1 am oot elected, vo -other Republican shall be,” declared Logan, opouly end deflantly, And he made good his threat. ———— Wo g0 no lmpropricty in the habit of & Wasbington paperethat prints the Hat of mar- riage llcensos under the hend of narket ro- ports. Bo mauy scheiniuz motbors izo to Wash- ington for the solo purposs of marrylog off thelr daughters that the transaction smellsof tha shop. ——— According to tho thoory of tho San Francisco Chironic’e, the Chiuesc question hinges upon diet. Tt lovks upun BLAINE'S argument asso amplification of jts own doctrino, thut *people who eat bread and beot and drink beer eanuot labor slungsids of thoso who subsist ou rlee,” 1t Justico Hunt only koew how mauy mea are anxiously waling for his cupty shocs, Le would be able to guess tho oxuct number of persons who are vraving for his dewmlsc, e could make a Joug llst of asplrauts bappy by dyling humediataly. ————— Minnesota constructed 333 miles of rallway lust yoar, a Jarger inilcuge than any other State can show, Aud yet she perslatontly refuscs to pay for tho construction of tho roads that wers Lusle years ugo within ber Hinlts with otler pev plu's wouey, e e— A spectal dispateh from Mudison says: ¢ The Milwusukee whisky men arc hers in full force fa favor of Caupgxpci” Of courss they sre They would be ungrateful to their beat frlend aud adviser not fo be preseot o bis great emare gouey, ————— In a recent mazaziue article Admiral Ponres speaks of ¢ angels on toast.” 1t 1s but sunple justive to say thut the Adwiral bad po tntcotion of alludivg to prims dounas by the use of that expressivn, e m— It Jonx A. Looax ia not clected to the Bcne ate, there need be no fears that he will starve. ‘There are a good many different ways of cara- g sn honest living open to bealtby men. i The Milwaukee Dulfy Murphey i3 too much absorbed with Whisky-Risg rominiscences o hear what the sad, sad waves are sayluz thab break on the shore of Devil's Lake, e ——n As Mme. ANDERSON hos accomplisbed her great undertuking, the country will have a littie rest untll the next {dlot puts in an appearsoce. Where is Bergt. Bazes? ¥ P A little boy on Wabash avenae says be s al- waysgiad to bear the aninister say.* finally,” for then he knows * amen * is not far off, ——— #“The Colorado Owl? is the plessant way the Atlanta Constltution refers Lo Bevator TELLES, Chairman of the lnyestigatiug Comiuittco, 4 Just uow Gov. Bisnor 1s “boowming in Oblas All agree that ho sball Lhave another chanco—for the nomloation, s A Georgin paper saya that the colored people of that State pay taxes VoD $5,000,000 worth ot propurty,